Infinite Winter Schedule

Starting January 31, 2016 and ending on May 2, 2016, we will read 75 pages each week for 13 weeks. Totally doable, right? Of course, this doesn’t take into consideration the endnotes. Which are considerable.

47 thoughts on “Infinite Winter Schedule”

I’m on page 165 … I love David’s writing, its emotion, humanness, details/observations, presence in the moment, and so much more. I am about half way through The Pale King, but will gladly continue IJ if it means being in this cyber community of kindred spirits. Peace and good reading. – Tim, writer, teacher

I can’t wait to read IJ again. So excited. So how does this work? I’ve never done a computer group thing before (yes, I am a luddite). Do we just come here to read what others are thinking and then post our own thoughts? Is there anything else to it? What do we fill in the field labeled “Website?” When I read IJ the first time, it just drove me nuts that no one I knew had read it. I had all these deep thoughts and couldn’t talk to anyone… then I got idea to go on the computer and look stuff up. Do we have to sign up somewhere? Is there a leader for this? T minus three days and counting!

Those things I wonder about too, but anyway: now I’ve digged the book out of the storeroom and look foreward to read. I just glanced through the first pages and by the style of the language it looks like Wallace liked Wittgenstein

Thank you! I bet it is. I’m reading Reader’s Block now and enjoy it in a way I haven’t done since I watched the original film version of The Society of the Spectacle ( both Markson’s and Debord’s works are unadmitted melancholy about cultural oblivion). Looking forward to read the stuff you mentioned!

I got mine on EBay for $15 including shipping from bargainbookstores.com brand new. I am also going to write down all the words I have to look up in the dictionary. I don’t have a computer so will be going to the library to check the website a few times a week for information and updates. Excited!

Welcome! Great plan. I’m curious to learn where you end up recording your new word finds! Mark Flanagan started writing the words inside the front cover. In my last read I decided to keep track of the words in an email. I’m getting really inspired by the variations in everyone’s Infinite Jest reading notes/collections.

I’m in and recruiting my Book Club to join as well. The tome has occupied space on my bookshelf as a mystery for too long. Jonathan Franzen references the book so it MUST be a good and worthwhile time investment.

I’m in and recruiting my Book Club to join as well. The tome has occupied space on my bookshelf as a mystery for too long. Jonathan Franzen references the book so it MUST be a good and worthwhile time investment.

Definitely doing paper. I think the Kindle handles back-and-forth footnote navigation better than it used to, but given the length of some of the notes, by the time you finish reading it you have to swipe Kindle pages back, back, back to the beginning of the footnote, so you can tap the number and get back to the original page… Yeah, I’m a two bookmark guy with this one.

Also casting my lot for the dead-tree version. Done it both ways, and using an electronic version has advantages in terms of copying out large passages into Word documents, but it just doesn’t compare, reading-experience wise. Plus, how will everyone else at the coffee shop know how awesome you are if you’re not physically lugging around a cinder-block sized novel?

Thanks for answering. I went to two area bookstores yesterday, Hastings and B & N, and neither had the book. Today I’ll visit COAS Books (used bookstore). But, then again, the Kindle version has its advantages. Maybe I’ll use my pendulum to help me decide.

I don’t think so, Jeffrey, but the location is provided for those who do. Personally, I will be reading from both the actual paper book and a Kindle (which I have found to be very friendly w/r/t the endnotes).